Salvation Army sousaphone player, Oxford Street, London

Jun. 06, 1965 - The Colonel in the British Army who prefers to spend Sunday a a private in the salvation army; For 12 hours every Sunday, Colonel George Crooks returns to the ranks. He throws off his jacket with the two pipe and crown badges of a full Colonel in the regular army. Then he puts on the uniform of a bandaman in the salvation army. He spends his Sundays puffing hard into a house phone playing Onward Christian Soldiers probably somewhere in Scho. COme Monday morning, Colonel Crocks a dispensing the good word of the Queen regulations as commanding officer of the royal army ordinance corp training unit at Aldershot. There is just one more rank complication in the Colonel's life. On Sundays as he puts on his private's uniform, his wife also marches with the salvation army but as a sergeant major. Photo Shows.Colonel Crooks playing his sousaphone as he marches with the Salvation Army Band down Oxford Street yesterday

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